What Is Knowledge Quotes

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.

The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now.

Rick Perry told reporters this week that he has a permit to carry a concealed handgun. He also has a concealed vocabulary, concealed knowledge of the issues, concealed tolerance.

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

I will read anything rather than work.

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.

It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge.

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to their most shameful longings and knowledge?

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

A little knowledge can go a long way.

It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.

All knowledge is self-reflective.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

A lot of people have knowledge, but they don't have the wisdom of when to apply that knowledge.

Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.